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Recto: Four Studies of Clover Blossoms. Verso: Two rough Studies of Clover Blossoms John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- recto: watercolour, bodycolour, and pen and ink, over graphite; verso: pen and ink, on lined blue laid paper with a Britannia watermark
- Dimensions
- 196 x 155 mm
- Inscription
- Recto:
top right, in ink: 382
below the bottom right image, in ink: d
Verso:
running right down the page, written out from the left edge, in ink (Ruskin): The smell is as rich as honey | and exactly of ['of' underlined] honey | The head dies from the bottom, the inner | flowers opening into a hollow | cup. the outer ones drooping and getting brown | Th [smudged out] | The white clover is quite different | Quite symmetrical Spiral | a little scale at base of | each stalk forms an exquisite | [r]eceptacle. when half flower | [...] pulled off. a b. line | of le[...]atides [?] of calices | [...] d. much steeper arch | - line of flower bases | Dwell on these [?] exquisite calices | in this | radiating fruition [?]
top left, in ink: 383
bottom right, in graphite: Ed.7
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.ED.007
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 072
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 4.B
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 7
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 7
Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Educational no. 7
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Educational, manuscript (1878)
R 7.These four Studies are an excellent example of the statement I have just made. They are sketches at least twenty years later than the last example; E. and the foreshortening of the three leaves in the upper one on the left, and the drawing of the filaments in the one below it, are much beyond the last example in general power, but the whole thing is, more or less a blunder disgraced by hurry and broken off by discouragement.
